VACUUM POLARIZATION EFFECTS IN LOW-ENERGY MUONIC ATOM COLLISIONS

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MELEZHIK, VS
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[1] Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna
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PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 1995年 / 51卷 / 05期
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10.1103/PhysRevA.51.3751
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
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We estimate the vacuum polarization (VP) correction to the Coulomb interaction in collisions of muonic atoms. It is shown that the VP effect, amplified by the low-lying virtual state ∼10 eV, is of the order of ∼1-2 % in the S-wave cross sections for pμ+p collisions as ≤. The VP amplitude becomes comparable to the anomalously small pure Coulomb amplitude for the singlet tμ+t scattering as →0 and near the Ramsauer-Townsend minima in the dμ+p and tμ+p scattering. © 1995 The American Physical Society.
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